50th Day of School (2014)

Howdy friends! Can you believe that Thanksgiving in the United States is just over two weeks away, crazy! Well, speaking of crazy we had a crazy day in first grade yesterday. We celebrated our 50th day of school with a 1950’s sock hop. The kids (and myself) had so much fun.

We started our morning with some math activities related to the number 50.

And a few others, not shown. Our morning math tubs were the same, just full of 50th day activities. After some math, we had our music teacher do some 50’s dancing and the hand jive. So much fun! Here is my son hand jiving while showing off his stylish bunny teeth!

We made jukebox’s. We will finish with the writing part later this week.

After lunch we put all three first grade classes together and they went to 5 stations. One station was tootsie roll measuring and bubble gum blowing.

Next, the students played with toys from the 1905’s and got to see how a record player works.

Roll, Graph and Do

50th day is hard work, so of course root beer floats were in order.

And the last station we had was good ole’ hula hoop and jump roping fun!

It was such a fun day! And I still have some follow up activities planned for tomorrow.

What is all of the buzz about bees? A lot! Bees are so important for our ecosystem but unfortunately some species are endangered. Kids are usually so curious about bugs, so you have instant engagement when you talk about bees! I like to teach the importance of them, and talk about ways we can help them out. There are so many great bee resources out there for teaching these insects and other pollinators. [ 442 more words ]

We had polar animal adventure day in first grade last week. Polar animal adventure day is a theme day we have as a culminating activity for your polar animal unit. We set up six stations and rotated the first graders through them. Each station was about 15 minutes long. Here are the stations we had….